after dr. rank confesses his feelings to nora, what is the significance of the light
I think during the encounter between Nora and Dr. Rank during the silk stocking scene in that location were many similarities. Both Nora and Dr. Rank were flirtatious, trying to use that as a style of manipulation. Through this flirtatious beliefs, both hoped to convey a bulletin to one another. In Dr. Rank's heed, he was struggling to confess his dearest to Nora, while Nora was hoping to get a favor from him. Dr. Rank appears to be more straightforward than Nora, for his way of behaving had a direct relation to his intentions and feelings. Nora'southward clever and cunning means are conspicuously depicted in this scene as she turns a playful conversation into a conversation of manipulation.
Questions from Human activity 2
ane) Why does Helmer hate sewing?
2) Nora expresses herself in a flirtatious mode when manipulating people, such as Helmer and Dr. Rank, will this form of expression exist carried out during her encounters with Krogstad?
iii) Does Dr. Rank prioritize his relationship with Helmer or Nora as the greatest?
Kaby Maheswaran
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I think that in the stocking scene, Nora was most to ask Dr. Rank to enquire Helmer to allow Krogstad to keep his job. She knows that Dr. Rank is adept friends with Helmer, and thinks that he might be able to convince Helmer to let Krogstad remain at the bank. By interim flirtatious, she is trying to become close to him and convince him to lend her this favor. However, after Dr. Rank confesses his love for her, she stops trying. I would debate this shows her developing moral character- She didn't want to take advantage of his feelings for her, and so she stopped asking for the favor.
I found a parallel between Dr. Rank'southward affliction that he inherited from his male parent and Nora's fear that she will "ruin" her children past lying and being deceitful. Dr. Rank explains that, "In every single family, in one way or some other, some such inexorable retribution is beingness exacted" (38), and complains that his, "poor innocent spine has to suffer for my begetter's youthful amusements" (38). This can be paralleled to Torvald's quote that "About everyone who has gone to the bad early on in life has had a deceitful female parent" (27). I am sure that when Dr. Rank was talking virtually his inherited illness and how he blamed his father, Nora was thinking nearly her own situation, every bit she immediately tried to stop him and wanted him to "talk of something cheerful".
Questions: When Torvald asks Nora if she's "agape of that fellow" after she asks him not to open up any letters, does he mean Krogstad? When she confesses that she is afraid, and that he cannot open his letter, why does he comply? Isn't he worried about her being deceitful, and wouldn't it seem to him that she knows something he doesn't?
Sosha
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Act 1:
Nora: "But come here and let me bear witness you lot what I have bought… Look, here is a new suit for Ivar and a sword, and a horse and a trumpet for Bob, and a doll and dolly's bedstead for Emmy…" (iii).
Act ii:
Nora: "Information technology is sorry that all these nice things should take revenge on our basic."
I coupled these two quotes because in Act 1, Nora was spending money recklessly and ownership all these nice things and dress while in Act ii, she states how these nice things may non exist at that place for much longer if her clandestine almost forging her father'south proper name is plant out because it is confronting the law and would destroy her relationship with her husband and children.
I interpreted the "silk stocking" scene as Nora manipulating Dr. Rank into doing a favor for her by flirting with him. I thought that the stockings caused Doctor Rank to acknowledge his feelings towards Nora and which in turn causes Nora to stop because she had not expected Medico Rank to experience this way about her every bit she "had no idea of this" (41). The stockings are what evoked Medico Rank to share his feelings which caused Nora to not quite know how to react. Ibsen cleverly included the stockings for this scene as they also connect to Nora'southward obsession of spending money.
Questions: What is Doctor Rank's background? Are there more things we will find out well-nigh him later in the play?
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"Simply I suppose your daughter has quite forgotten you" (30).
"Poor Christine, you lot are a widow" (half-dozen).
One-time what Nora says just make me go facepalm. The things she say don't go through her heed.
The "silk stocking" scene made me really uncomfortable. Nora feels uncomfortable also, and a little surprised when Dr. Rank responds to her flirts. But she does decide to stop and not ask him for the favor because she understands that Dr. Rank is a skillful family unit friend to both her and Torvald.
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Act Ane: Torvald: "Is it my little squirrel bustling about?"
Deed 2: Nora: "Surely you can sympathize that beingness with Torvald is a petty similar beingness with papa."
I coupled these quotes because they evidence the unusual relationship between Nora and Torvald. I thought Nora did'nt realize how weird it is, merely the second quote shows she does.
During the silk stocking scene Nora's personality is once more shown every bit childlike. She seems to not really know what she is doing past showing Dr. Rank her stockings. However, when he asks to see more she realizes the severity of the situation and becomes uncomfortable. Doctor Rank is reminded of his dear for Nora and lead to him confessing his feelings for her.
Some Questions I accept for class tomorrow are
-Does Nora think there is no way she can get the letter?
-Does Dr. Rank know something is going on?
-Is Nora really uncomfortable with the attention of Dr. Rank or is information technology simply an act?
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Throughout Act I, a common device of Nora'due south that we started to notice wast he manner of deceiving her husband by playing to his egotistical and patronizing means. He does not think of her equally very smart and capable, so she uses his narrow view of her to her reward to distract from the daring and large bug she is creating behind his back. We see her using this technique to get information about Krogstad from him by saying "There is no ane has such expert taste equally you lot… couldn't y'all accept me in mitt and make up one's mind what I shall become as and what sort of dress I shall article of clothing?" (26). This effectively draws the data she wanted out of him without blatantly asking him. In Act I, she only uses this every bit a crutch, just in Deed II she completely relies on her method of playing helpless, to keep life as she knows it from crashing down. She uses this once more when she wanted to distract him from checking their mailbox and seeing the letter from Krogstad, "I can't get on a scrap without you… Sit down downwards and play for me, Torvald dear; criticize me and correct me as you lot play" (47-48). This is merely then constructive because of the lack of knowledge of her actual capabilities. This act is almost like her simply way to accept any sort of balance, she is not able to concord power in a career or in the eyes of her husband, but she tin can concord ability in herself through subterfuge. When she is thinking over how long she has to continue this upward, she say, "Then the tarantella volition be over. 20-four and seven? Thirty-one hours to live" (fifty). This is her manner to survive and is every bit vital to her as her husbands career is to him.
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An unexplored role of the silk stocking scene in this weblog is what Dr. Rank is thinking at its finish when he goes into Torvald's room promising to distract Torvald. This is a man nearly his deathbed who knows that he has merely missed out on an opportunity to become closer to someone he loves and thinks that his new purpose in going to distract Torvald is fiddling-so Nora tin can put on a dress. He must experience a fair amount of despair for professing his beloved dearest to Nora so early that he is not able to hear what favor he can do for Nora. Concurrently, his eagerness to distract Torvald is probable out of self-comfort to be able to tell himself that he is doing something of service to Nora. What is interesting is how fifty-fifty after Dr. Rank comes back and realizes that his distraction was not so Nora could put on a dress- she is still not wearing ane- he still willingly goes with Nora's story and fifty-fifty tells Torvald that he "mustn't contradict her." (49) In this way, it is shown that he is willing to do whatever Nora needs at however petty notice and that these feelings have likely been going on for a while. Reading his clarification, I idea to how often Disney kills the female parent- an unfailing benefactor who had previously played a major function in protecting the protagonist- every bit an introduction to the conflict. Past mentioning Dr. Rank'southward impending death, Ibsen is characterizing Nora as losing another ane of her by protections both from the outside world and Torvald, helping to set the conflict in Human action three.
Questions:
Given how Ibsen is trying to critique the balance of power in marriages dorsum then, why does he portray Nora as someone who i desultory and not very smart?
Is Nora really able to manipulate Torvald so easily or is he just playing along?
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"Yep- but, Nurse, I shall not be able to be then much with them at present as I was before" (30)
"There they are. In that location they are! [he runs to open the door. The Nurse comes in with the children.] Come in! Come in! Wait at them, Christine! Aren't they darlings?" (18)
I couples these two quotes because they show how much influence Torvald has on her despite her abiding efforts to gain the upper hand and manipulate him into giving her what she wants. Although she looks for autonomy and enjoys feeling as though she has power over her husband, her interactions (or lack of) with her children show how much she values his opinion and how she takes his words to the heart. He told her that the children of deceitful mothers typically are not good people, and she stops letting herself be nearly her children afterwards because she believes that his words are the absolute truth. Nora likes to imagine that she has influence over Torvald, and she does, but she neglects to acknowledge the influence he has over her actions as well; she is dependent on him for money, and she knows this, just I don't think that she realizes how much she relies on his treatment of her, and how much she wants him to think of her positively.
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Act1 : "Nonsense! Trying to frighten me like that! I am not and so silly as he thinks!" (24)
Act 2: "Then the Tarantella will be over. 20-four and seven? Thirty-1 hours to live." (50)
The "Silk Stocking" is a personal and flirtatious encounter between Dr. Rank and Nora. Nora wants to gain Dr. Rank's trust past flirting with him and teasing him with her trunk. It is only natural that Dr. Rank would presume that she is leading him on and shares the same dearest for him that he has for her. Notwithstanding, she immediately becomes hostile towards Dr. Rank when he confesses his beloved for her and shuts him off completely considering she feels uncomfortable. Information technology seems that even given Dr. Rank's horrible illness, Nora does not compassion him in the slightest and is too loyal to Torvald. Maybe Dr. Rank thought that if he shared the details of his bleak life, Nora would feel bad for him and love him more than a friend. Maybe Dr. Rank simply thought he could take advantage of Nora.
What is the favor that Nora was going to enquire Dr. Rank?
Why does Nora get so offended when Dr. Rank professes his honey for her?
Is Krogstad actually going to kill Nora over such a relatively small amount of coin?
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Human activity 1:
Mrs Linde: No, a wife cannot infringe without her hubby'southward consent
Nora: Oh, if it is a wife who has any head for concern- a wife who has the wit to be a little clever-
Human activity 2: Nora: A human can put a thing like that straight much easier than a woman.
In these two quotes, there are a couple of ways in which an audition member could interpret Nora'southward alien lines. The first would be that in Human activity two, Nora is frustrated with the role she is forced to play in social club as a adult female in a way that she had not previously experienced. Some other way to interpret the change of listen that Nora goes through between these two quotes is that Nora is panicking. Since Krogstad visited Torvald in the first act, Nora has appeared nervous, but she has remained confident in that she will be able to pull off paying the loan without her husband finding out, and she will make certain that both Krogstad and Mrs. Linde will have jobs at the bank. However, in the second quotation, Nora is clearly distressed past the situation. In this conversation with Mrs. Linde during Human activity 2, Nora has lost the self-confidence that had kept her sane and able to continue to human activity light-headed and childish in front of her husband. Without putting up the front that she always does with Torvald, she loses her secrets and Torvald becomes the one with control in the relationship. In Act ane, Nora considered herself clever for taking out the loan, and thought that the obstacles women faced in trying to take matters of business into their own easily were easily overcome with a few lies and hard work. In Act 2, the audition can run across her frustration at the complexity of her trouble and her disability to influence Torvald like she usually does. Now, Nora is experiencing the dilemma of being controlled by her husband. It's interesting how, in the showtime act, Nora pitied Mrs. Linde for her obvious misfortune, and thought that there was no manner she could ever be happy without a husband and children and a comfortable way of life. Now, Nora is trying to stay abroad from her children, considered running abroad from her "perfect" life altogether, and is in a deceitful relationship with her married man.
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As we were saying in class, I find it interesting that in this time flow people didn't recall much of "nature vs. nurture", they sort of just assumed people were who they were from birth. However Ibsen alludes to the touch ane's parents can have on them throughout both Human action I and Act II (and I'yard assuming Act III besides). In Act II Mrs. Linde tells Nora that she is "not [her] begetter's daughter for nothing" in regards to the way she and Torvalt keep their house and status and then pristine and beautiful. Mrs. Linde says this almost sarcastically, which makes me wonder what Mrs. Linde's life is like now compared to before her married man died? I'one thousand too curious to see whether or non Nora'southward secret about borrowing money illegally from Krogstad is ever discovered, and how the idea of parents impacting their children is explored throughout the rest of the novel.
I agree with Steven on his interpretation of the "Silk Stockings" scene with Nora and Dr. Rank. Nora is using her flirtatious nature, equally we can presume she has been for a while now, in order to persuade Dr. Rank to trust her and ensure that she can safely confide in him. Once he returns the flirting with a more deep and intimate chat, Nora is completely taken ashamed and puts an end to the whole thing. While I do think that she puts a stop to the matter considering of her loyalty to Torvald and their family name, I also think that if there are even some true feelings Nora has for Dr. Rank, even platonically, someone speaking to her as an equal and as if they are the ones who ought to be pleasing her must be sort of overwhelming. She seems to exist someone who is easily taken advantage of, and in this moment Dr. Rank is soooort of taking advantage of her and the state of affairs, but he is also (I think) genuinely confessing feelings for her on a level far deeper than just the usual harmless flirting.
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In the silk stocking scene, information technology seems like Nora is almost trying to seduce Dr Rank so that he will help her with her problem. In her own mind, Nora may accept thought she was just enjoying an intimate moment with her friend. She may have been realizing her own feelings of trust for Dr Rank, and that she wanted him to assist her. Dr Rank was likely thinking about his feelings for Nora, and how he has gone through their entire relationship with each other without her understanding how he feels. Perhaps he felt regret, remorse, or feelings of sadness that his time on Globe, and with Nora, will exist cut off so presently. Both of them seem to be realizing that they truly bask each other's visitor, though for Dr Rank, his feelings go beyond that.
Questions:
I'm a piddling bit dislocated nearly all of the details of Krogstad'south plan
Does Mrs. Linde only exist to be Nora's foil? Or does she have another purpose in the story
Nora seems to have a plan that she will execute if Torvald finds out what she did. Is she going to run away? Or cause harm to herself or others? Does Krogstad actually programme to impale Nora? When she says she has 31 hours to live, does she mean that literally?
-Anna Vrountas
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A large part of our course give-and-take today was nigh whether Nora is deliberately manipulative or just has dumb luck and doesn't quite know what she is doing. This definitely comes into play during the silk stocking scene as her flirtatious nature towards Dr. Rank is obvious to the reader. All the same she seems genuinely shocked when he reciprocates this behavior and confesses his involvement in her. As a woman who is aware of her condition and beauty and willingly putting herself out there to Dr. Rank why is she so shocked to find he is fond of her? This leads me to believe that maybe she isn't completely aware of her inappropriate flirting and thinks more of information technology as teasing, making me also wonder what else she isn't enlightened of doing. Nora is proving to exist a more complicated character as the story goes on. Their are some things like distracting Helmer away from the mailbox by her dancing at the end of the scene that I know she does on purpose but other things I am not so certain of. It is interesting to run across a character display the duality of being highly intelligent in her ability to manipulate but dumb enough to sign her father's proper noun on a legal document and write the date for afterwards he died.
Question: Because the role of women in the 19th century, why is Helmer even thinking about giving Mrs. Linde a job every bit she is not only a women merely about likely does not have the skills required to fulfill Krogstad job?
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Deed I: Nora: "Trying to frighten me similar that! I am not and then empty-headed as he thinks."
Act II: Nora: "Telephone call her dorsum, Torvald! There is still time. Oh, Torvald, call her back! Practise it for my sake- for your own sake- for the children'southward sake!"
I paired these two quotes together because they portray two different sides of Nora. In the quote taken from Human action I, the reader sees that Nora does not fright Krogstad's threat to expose her human activity of forging her father's signature. Antithetically in Deed II, Nora is seen panicking and scared as Torvald sends the letter detailing Krogstad's dismissal.
In the "silk stocking" scene, nosotros see Nora flirting with Dr. Rank in an effort to proceeds his trust. Although her actions entice him, her just incentive in existence flirtatious is to request a favor, but when Dr. Rank confesses his love for her, she becomes extremely uncomfortable and offended past his gesture. This farther suggests that Nora is manipulative, and will do anything in her ability to use others as a means of getting what she wants.
Questions:
Is Nora serious when she exclaims that she volition be killed?
Will Krogstad go so far as to impale Nora?
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Questions:
Is Nora just actually ignorant to the consequences of her actions, or does she merely just non care?
Was Nora seriously considering suicide?
What was the human relationship between Mrs Linde and Krogstad?
Something I institute interesting in the Silk Stocking scene was when Nora said "To call back y'all would exist so clumsy" as if she is not only taken aback by his confession of dear but too by his honesty. I think Nora has get and so used to manipulation and lying that honesty surprises her.
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"It is perfectly glorious to call up that nosotros have -- that Torvald has then much power over and then many people." (Nora, 16)
"Take you forgotten that it is I who accept the keeping of your reputation?" (Krogstad, 45)
I paired these two quotes together because they show Nora's change in mental state. At the beginning of Deed I, she'due south excited to have power through Torvald'south new position and she thinks they can't be taken downward simply Krogstad's visit in Act II confirms that he'south the 1 belongings the strings. She's his subordinate, and, in turn, then is Torvald.
The "silk stocking" scene is filled with sexual tension between Nora and Dr. Rank. She describes them as "flesh-colored" and tells him he can only look at the feet just then changes her listen and gives him permission to wait at the knees. Nora is looking at Dr. Rank with new eyes after Mrs. Linde'southward comment about their relationship. She begins to wonder if in that location's really anything there betwixt them and the fact that the natural light in the room is dimming adds to the intimate mood. Dr. Rank perceives her flirting, through the use of stockings, and exact affection, in response to his comments about death, equally a permission to speak freely of his dearest for her. Overall, the scene and the characters exude sexuality, desire, and romance.
Questions:
What did Torvald mean by existence man enough to take everything upon himself?
Did Nora return the confession to Dr. Rank or did she but avoid answering?
What's going to happen with the money Nora has already given Krogstad now that he doesn't want money, just a job?
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Ms. L: I only feel my life unspeakably empty. No one to live for any more than. (9)
Helmer: Come what will, you (Nora) may exist certain I shall have both courage and strength if they be needed. You will see I am a man enough to take everything upon himself. (36)
The reason I chose these two quotes is that I thought they helped highlight a concept about relationships with in "A Doll'south Firm." An important question raised in the story is, "is our formulation of dear selfish and unfulfilling?" Take Ms Linde, who has spent near of her life taking care of her family and so attaching herself to a man who she didn't really honey securely, only for him to dice and go out her with cypher, empty and searching for a purpose. For Linde, living for others, her mother, her brothers, her late hubby, has left her unfulfilled and worse for vesture. At present take Helmer, for whom Nora lives for. Even though he may recollect he loves his wife, in reality he just cares nigh himself and uses Nora every bit an accessory to his own life, an object that makes him feel loved, important, and equally he says "strong and courageous." So here are the two sides of "love"; you either live for others which leave you unfulfilled (like Linde) or you have others live for you which makes you selfish (like Helmer). While ane tin say this is just how twisted and broken honey works, these elements exist in all true connections with other people. Remember about it, why practice we seek out love and connections with other people? Considering feeling loved and wanted and having that connection makes u.s.a. happy, it gives us something, it serves our needs. All beloved, no matter how deep true or meaningful it is, is at least in definition, a little selfish, because it makes us feel amend about ourselves. That may be a cold and heartless outlook on life, simply I am a cold heartless person then… yeh.
I believe there are a variety of emotions and desires taking identify between Nora and Dr Rank in the "Silk Stocking" scene. For Nora, her actions in the scene originate in the dysfunctions of her own spousal relationship. With Torvald'due south sending of the letter, Nora feels more powerless than ever inside her union, unable to control her married man's deportment and soon enough she volition lose all of the emotional ability she has over him when he finds out her deception. Given the impending collapse of her marriage, she is driven closer to Rank, the merely person who she can really be herself around, for the emotional connectedness and closeness she knows she volition lose with Torvald. She is also trying to reestablish some sort of emotional control or power over the people in her life, trying to use her body to earn the greater love and power from Rank. There is likewise fear in her actions, fear that with the loss of Rank, she will have nobody in her life with whom she can actually accept an emotional connectedness with, and so she uses her trunk to make him want to stay in her life. For Rank in that location is relief and happiness in this brief moment, as he is despairing in his impending death and Nora'due south actions make him feel loved and wanted.
Questions:
-Does Nora actually dearest Rank or only dearest him equally a friend for the emotional connection they accept?
-Does Nora actually love Torvald? She has convinced herself she has at least but does she really?
-Why does Linde go along coming to Kristine and doing stuff for her? Nora literally forgot who she was yesterday.
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The "silk-stockings" scene in the book was an uncomfortable one to read and an even more uncomfortable one to sentry. This scene was one of subtle seduction. Dr. Rank bought Nora a pair of silk-stockings which she graciously accepts. Withal, their interpretations of this encounter are very different. Nora is only flirting with Dr. Rank so she can inquire him for money. She is hoping that he will do her a favor and lend her the coin to pay her debt. In Dr. Rank'southward listen he thinks that Nora feels the same way that he does. He thinks that she returns the feelings that he has for her. Dr. Rank reveals two things to Nora in this scene: one, that he is in love with her and two, that he is dying. This scene was very uncomfortable. I was confused almost why he grouped these ii confessions into one talk. The symbol of the stockings was one of seduction and love. Withal, these affections were misplaced every bit Nora did non reciprocate the dearest that Dr. Rank felt for her.
Colleen
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In my mind, the silk stocking scene is just another example of Nora knowingly and unknowingly using her sexuality to manipulate the men around her. She takes an object of such desire it has been focused on as the quintessential symbol of sex and seduction in other works (such as "Death of a Salesman" and "White Dissonance"), making information technology the focal point for her interaction with Dr Rank. She bats him with it as ane might while playing with a true cat, tantalizing him with the allure that is unspoken betwixt the both of them. Only what might just await like an interaction full of unrequited and forbidden love is colored by her previous interaction with Mrs Linde, which gives Nora the idea to try to solve her Krogstad problem through Dr Rank. This creates dramatic irony; the reader knows that Nora is attempting to take reward of Dr Rank, while the witless Rank simply thinks that his emotional thing with Nora is coming to a head in the wake of the news about his impending death.
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In the scene between Nora and Dr. Rank, at that place is an obvious flirtation between the two. Still the length at which the two characters want to take the flirting is very unlike. Nora thinks that the discussion is just harmless flirting with no reprocusions, however Dr. Rank takes information technology further. I'one thousand glad that Nora was able to finish the situation where she did because if it had gone any further it would accept turned into a much darker scene. This scene also somewhat parallels the contempo outbreak of sexual assult accusations in the entertainment and news industries. Women are simply now standing up forthemselves because information technology is a topic that has been in the dark for such a long time. Nora mirrors the women who have been able to put a terminate to unwanted advances and represents those who are part of the #metoo stand also. The play in full general mirrors many unlike electric current subjects, from money related reputations to the role of women in guild. I'one thousand excited to run into where this will get and how it will shape the residue of the story.
Will nora involve torvald in this incident?
How volition she react to the new feelings from Dr. Rank?
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The scene between Nora and Dr. Rank seemed quite unusual to me. Nora loves her husband and was going to immense lengths to hide the truth and then that she could hide the injure Torvald would receive if he ever constitute out. The affair is Nora in the beginning identify took the loan from Krogstad in order to save the life of her husband. Nora did everything for her husband considering she loved him. Nora hid the truth so that Torvald could go on living stress-free while she took on the stress of the couple because of her love for Torvald. Then when she started flirting with Dr. Rank it profoundly surprised me. My question is why would Nora flirt with another man so that she could relieve the man that she "loves". In my opinion, this foreshadows the true relationship Nora actually has with her married man Torvald. Instead of being a relationship of love it is more like a relationship of fearfulness and appeasement which I think is somewhat strange.
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Throughout the first human action, Torvald can be quoted multiple times "affectionately" calling and teasing Nora with phrases like "Is it my little squirrel bustling about?" and then on. In fact, when we read Deed I together in class, a lot of students, myself included, did not immediately take hold of that Nora and Torvald were married, since the style that Torvald addressed Nora, besides as the way he micromanages her for the silliest of ordeals, such as "paying a visit to the confectioner's," was and so condescending that many of the states automatically presumed this to be a father-daughter relationship. Even so, information technology startled united states all when nosotros discovered this was non the case. I'one thousand sure this was delierate on Ibsen's role, every bit in the next act, Nora, in dialogue, says, "surely you tin can understand that being with Torvald is a little like being with papa." A lot of readers, I presume, echo this thought. Information technology brought up a lot of questions for me. It seems, firstly, that Nora views Torvald every bit more of an authoritarian figure than her beloved, and thus it seems nigh natural for her to try and find this "love" elsewhere. I agree with some of the other students in the above comments on Nora's unusual behavior with Doctor Rank, and the unabridged scene with the stockings.
I wonder if Doctor Rank is at all suspicious of Nora's activity, and the same with Torvald. I as well wonder if Nora genuinely believes she can keep up this charade, especially since there are then many variables to consider, and then many dissimilar ways to deed towards unlike people. I'm interested in reading on.
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Nora is used to the diseased nature of the house, and in a manner her coping mechanism is to deed like a fawning puppy dog to her husband Torvald. Like I've said earlier, from the outside looking in it's blatant and creepy, but to be subjected to such abuse over a long period of fourth dimension, peculiarly from someone you affair you trust, the result is more underhanded. I call back that Nora confused how much trust she puts into Dr. Rank, thinking that he is as trustworthy in her optics as Torvald. Merely, as Rank has no knowledge of the circumstances of their matrimony, he mistakes Nora's request for assistance and light flirting for a announcement of love. The silk stocking served but to push him over the edge of uncertainty to brand Rank recollect that, aye, indeed, Nora DOES beloved me!
Act I: "Surely you can understand that being with Torvald is a little similar beingness with Papa." - Nora
Act Ii: "I cannot imagine for a moment what would have become of me if I had never come into this house." - Rank
With these two quotes we can run across a clear discrepancy. Whereas Rank sees the house as an oasis of condolement away from the outside, Nora knows it but as the home of her overbearing hubby, who took the place of her equally overbearing father. The experience of being in the home is cathartic for Rank merely sickening for Nora, a difference that meant neither character could truly sympathise the intentions or troubles of the other.
Dr. Rank's confession seems a trivial too hasty for the balance of the volume's pacing. Why did Ibsen drop it out of nowhere?
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Act 1:
Nora: Well, do it, then!--and it will be the worse for you. My husband will see for himself what a blackguard you are, and you certainly won't keep your post and then.
Act 2:
Nora: He is going. He is not putting the letter in the box. Oh no, no! that'southward incommunicable... What is that? He is standing outside. He is non going downstairs. Is he hesitating? Tin can he--?
Within the lines of dialogue with Krogstad in Deed 1, the overconfidence that Nora has inherently exacerbates the notion that she can tell her hubby nigh how she truly obtained the coin to relieve Torvald when his life was in danger. In contrast to the behavior she emitted in the first human activity towards Krogstad, Nora now possesses a rather weak try to yet accept an influence over the state of affairs between Krogstad and Nora despite Krogstad clearly having the upper hand within this mini-conflict.
Nora, inside the "silk-stocking" scene, is making frail attempts to request of Dr. Rank to act upon a favor regarding the financial problem she has incurred. She does this through flirting with her trunk which apparently works, as the reader sees Rank suddenly confess his love to Nora at a time where he has as well told Nora that he is presently to die. Dr. Rank knows that he is shortly to be expressionless which makes his irrational spurt of confession something that is understandable but still somewhat strange due to his abruptness.
If Nora asked the favor that she truly wanted Rank to do, would that take drastically inverse the issue of the ending?
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In the "silk stocking scene" Nora and Doctor Rank have very dissimilar things going on within their minds. My interpretation of this moment is that Nora is flirting with Doc Rank so that she tin ask him for a favor. Nora taunts Medico Rank by proverb things similar, "No, no, no! Yous must simply look at the anxiety. Oh well, you may have a await at the legs too" (39). This entices Doctor Rank as he responds, "And what other overnice things am I allowed to run into?" Nonetheless, Nora no longer feels comfortable with Doctor Rank when he begins to speak like this to her. He then confesses his undying beloved for her and she is greatly offended by his statements. So, the intimacy of the stockings that Nora shows Doctor Rank lead to the overall reveal of Doctor Rank's true feelings. Nora seems absurdly surprised past his feelings although she is the 1 who constantly leads him on. The stockings seem like a symbol of seduction and secrecy that Ibsen purposefully includes.
Questions: Has Doctor Rank never been married/ had no children? What was Krogstad'due south relationship with Mrs. Linde? Do nosotros know anymore information about Nora's begetter/ what he was like?
Cat Weiner
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